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Pediatric healthcare design often applies generalized child-friendly principles, ignoring developmental differences in sensory processing and emotional regulation.
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Visual elements in pediatric settings, such as artwork and openness, are assumed to distract positively, but evidence supporting this is limited.
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Younger children prefer high-salience visual stimuli, while adolescents value autonomy and may find infantilizing environments distressing.
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Current pediatric design guidelines lack specific recommendations for visual and sensory strategies tailored to different age groups.
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Empirical studies on pediatric healthcare environments often rely on caregiver reports, missing children's moment-to-moment responses to visual stimuli.
